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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.
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Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."
The Supreme Court is the last line of defense for the separation of powers and for the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit.
In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women's reproductive rights.
The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
I used to believe in a "Ms. Right", but now i know there is like 4 million "Ms. Rights" and it is just a matter of which one you meet first.
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.
On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't stand the light of day.
We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.
I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.